Mr. Fornnarino's English 2 ELL Practice Final for Semester 1

Mr. Fornnarino's English 2 Semester 1 Practice Final for ELL Students

This space contains reference text beginning next to Question 13.

Read the following excerpt from Chapter 94 of Life of Pi and then answer Questions 13, 14, & 15.

Refer back to the passage if you need to do so.

I let myself down the side. I was afraid to let go, afraid that so close to deliverance, in two feet of water, I would drown. I looked ahead to see how far I had to go. The glance gave me one of my last images of Richard Parker, for at that precise moment he jumped over me. I saw his body, so immeasurably vital, stretched in the air above me, a fleeting, furred rainbow. He landed in the water, his back legs splayed, his tail high, and from there, in a few hops, he reached the beach. He went to the left, his paws gouging the wet sand, but changed his mind and spun around. He passed directly in front of me on his way to the right. He didn't look at me. He ran a hundred yards or so along the shore before turning in. His gait was clumsy and uncoordinated. He fell several times. At the edge of the jungle, he stopped. I was certain he would turn my way. He would look at me. He would flatten his ears. He would growl. In some such way, he would conclude our relationship. He did nothing of the sort. He only looked fixedly into the jungle. Then Richard Parker, companion of my torment, awful, fierce thing that kept me alive, moved forward and disappeared forever from my life.

I struggled to shore and fell upon the sand. I looked about. I was truly alone, orphaned not only of my family, but now of Richard Parker, and nearly, I thought, of God. Of course, I wasn't. This beach, so soft, firm and vast, was like the cheek of God, and somewhere two eyes were glittering with pleasure and a mouth was smiling at having me there.

Read the following passage from Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth. Choose the best responses to the prompts (Questions 19-22) next to the passage. There is one and only one correct answer to each prompt.

Act I Scene v Lines 35-67

LADY MACBETH

³⁵The raven himself is hoarse

That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan

Under my battlements. Come, you spirits

That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,

And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full

⁴⁰Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood.

Stop up the access and passage to remorse,

That no compunctious visitings of nature

Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between

The effect and it. Come to my woman's breasts,

⁴⁵And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,

Wherever in your sightless substances

You wait on nature's mischief. Come, thick night,

And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,

That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,

⁵⁰Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark

To cry 'Hold, hold!'

[ENTER MACBETH]

Great Glamis! worthy Cawdor!

Greater than both by the all-hail hereafter!

Thy letters have transported me beyond

This ignorant present, and I feel now

⁵⁵The future in the instant.

MACBETH My dearest love,

Duncan comes here tonight.

LADY MACBETH And when goes hence?

MACBETH Tomorrow, as he purposes.

LADY MACBETH O, never

Shall sun that morrow see!

Your face, my thane, is as a book where men

⁶⁰May read strange matters. To beguile the time,

Look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye,

Your hand, your tongue. Look like the innocent flower,

But be the serpent under't. He that's coming

Must be provided for: and you shall put

⁶⁵This night's great business into my dispatch;

Which shall to all our nights and days to come

Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.

Read the following passage from Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth. Choose the best responses to the prompts (Questions 23-26) next to the passage. There is one and only one correct answer to each prompt.

Act II Scene iii Lines 89-133

DONALBAIN

What is amiss?

MACBETH

You are, and do not know't.

⁹⁰ The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood

Is stopped; the very source of it is stopped.

MACDUFF

Your royal father's murdered.

MALCOLM

O, by whom?

LENNOX

Those of his chamber, as it seemed, had done 't.

Their hands and faces were all badged with blood.

⁹⁵So were their daggers, which unwiped we found

Upon their pillows. They stared, and were distracted. No man's life was to be trusted with them.

MACBETH

O, yet I do repent me of my fury.

That I did kill them.

MACDUFF

                                           Wherefore did you so?

MACBETH

¹⁰⁰ Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious,

Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.

The expedition my violent love

Outrun the pauser, reason. Here lay Duncan,

His silver skin laced with his golden blood,

¹⁰⁵ And his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature

For ruin's wasteful entrance; there the murderers,

Steeped in the colors of their trade, their daggers

Unmannerly breeched with gore. Who could refrain

That had a heart to love, and in that heart

¹¹⁰ Courage to make 's love known?

LADY MACBETH

                                                  Help me hence, ho!

MACDUFF

Look to the lady.

MALCOLM [Aside to DONALBAIN]

                             Why do we hold our tongues,

That most may claim this argument for ours?

DONALBAIN [Aside to MALCOLM]

What should be spoken here, where our fate,

Hid in an auger-hole, may rush and seize us?

¹¹⁵ Let's away. Our tears are not yet brewed.

MALCOLM [Aside to DONALBAIN]

Nor our strong sorrow upon the foot of motion.

BANQUO

Look to the lady.

LADY MACBETH is carried out

And when we have our naked frailties hid,

That suffer in exposure, let us meet

¹²⁰ And question this most bloody piece of work,

To know it further. Fears and scruples shake us.

In the great hand of God I stand, and thence

Against the undivulged pretence I fight

Of treasonous malice.

MACDUFF

                                           And so do I.

ALL

                                                                So all.

MACBETH

¹²⁵ Let's briefly put on manly readiness,

And meet i' the hall together.

ALL

                                           Well contented.

Exeunt all but Malcolm and Donalbain.

MALCOLM

What will you do? Let's not consort with them.

To show an unfelt sorrow is an office

Which the false man does easy. I'll to England.

DONALBAIN

¹³⁰ To Ireland, I. Our separated fortune

Shall keep us both the safer. Where we are,

There's daggers in men's smiles. The near in blood,

The nearer bloody.

Read the following passage from Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth. Choose the best responses to the prompts (Questions 27-30) next to the passage. There is one and only one correct answer to each prompt.

Act IV Scene iii Lines 200-243

MACDUFF

²⁰⁰If it be mine,

Keep it not from me. Quickly let me have it.

ROSS

Let not your ears despise my tongue forever,

Which shall possess them with the heaviest sound

That ever yet they heard.

MACDUFF

Hum! I guess at it.

ROSS

²⁰⁵ Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes

Savagely slaughtered, To relate the manner

Were on the quarry of these murder'd deer

To add the death of you.

MALCOLM

Merciful heaven!

What, man, ne'er pull your hat upon your brows.

²¹⁰ Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak

Whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break.

MACDUFF

My children too?

ROSS

Wife, children, servants, all that could be found.

MACDUFF

And I must be from thence? My wife killed too?

ROSS

²¹⁵ I have said.

MALCOLM

Be comforted.

Let's make us medicines of our great revenge

To cure this deadly grief.

MACDUFF

He has no children. All my pretty ones?

²²⁰ Did you say “all”? O hell-kite! All?

What, all my pretty chickens and their dam

At one fell swoop?

MALCOLM

Dispute it like a man.

MACDUFF

                               I shall do so,

But I must also feel it as a man.

²²⁵ I cannot but remember such things were

That were most precious to me. Did heaven look on

And would not take their part? Sinful Macduff,

They were all struck for thee! Naught that I am,

Not for their own demerits, but for mine,

²³⁰ Fell slaughter on their souls. Heaven rest them now!

MALCOLM

Be this the whetstone of your sword: let grief

Convert to anger. Blunt not the heart, enrage it.

MACDUFF

O, I could play the woman with mine eyes

And braggart with my tongue! But, gentle heavens,

²³⁵ Cut short all intermission! Front to front

Bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself.

Within my sword's length set him; if he 'scape,

Heaven forgive him too!

MALCOLM

                                           This tune goes manly.

Come, go we to the King. Our power is ready;

²⁴⁰ Our lack is nothing but our leave. Macbeth

Is ripe for shaking, and the powers above

Put on their instruments. Receive what cheer you may.

The night is long that never finds the day.

Read the following passage from Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth. Choose the best response to the prompt (Question 31) next to the passage. There is one and only one correct answer.

Act V Scene viii Lines 52-end

SIWARD

He's worth no more.

They say he parted well, and paid his score,

And so, God be with him! Here comes newer comfort.

[Re-enter MACDUFF, with MACBETH's head]

MACDUFF

⁵⁵ Hail, king! for so thou art: behold, where stands

The usurper's cursed head: the time is free:

I see thee compass'd with thy kingdom's pearl,

That speak my salutation in their minds;

Whose voices I desire aloud with mine,

⁶⁰ Hail, King of Scotland!

ALL

                                           Hail, King of Scotland!

[Flourish]

MALCOLM

We shall not spend a large expense of time

Before we reckon with your several loves,

And make us even with you. My thanes and kinsmen,

Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland

⁶⁵ In such an honor named. What's more to do,

Which would be planted newly with the time,

As calling home our exiled friends abroad

That fled the snares of watchful tyranny;

Producing forth the cruel ministers

⁷⁰ Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen

Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands

Took off her life; this, and what needful else

That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace,

We will perform in measure, time and place.

⁷⁵ So, thanks to all at once and to each one,

Whom we invite to see us crowned at Scone.

Flourish. Exeunt.

For Questions 1-12, please mark the letter of the correct definition of the given vocabulary word.

acuity
1. (n.) sharpness
2. (v.) to defeat
subjectively
1. (adv.) with opinions
2. (adv.) without stopping
amenable
1. (n.) agitation
2. (adj.) agreeable
remonstration
1. (n.) complaining
2. (n.) showiness
insouciant
1. (n.) awareness; the ability to understand
2. (adj.) carefree
tantamount
1. (adj.) equal
2. (adj.) throaty
bludgeon
1. (v.) to beat; to hit
2. (v.) to obtain; to get
eviscerate
1. (v.) to prevent
2. (v.) to gut; to cut out parts of a body
precipitously
1. (adv.) abruptly; suddenly
2. (adj.) bendable
harbinger
1. (n.) a forerunner; a messenger
2. (n.) a king or a queen
multitudinous
1. (v.) to beg; to ask someone for something or to ask them to do something
2. (adj.) plentiful; many
vanquish
1. (adj.) unholy
2. (v.) to defeat
(RL2) By reading this passage, what can you say Pi learned from his travels? (What is the theme of the passage?)
1. Humans can find their place in the universe when they are alone.
2. Getting off of a boat is much easier for animals than it is for humans.
(RL3) What does Pi seem to want the most from Richard Parker before he disappears into the jungle?
1. a reason for why the animal didn’t kill him
2. a feeling of completeness as the relationship between himself and the tiger ended
(RL5) The author has Richard Parker disappear into the jungle quickly to show __________?
1. the long, happy life Pi now faces
2. that the people and animals a person loves and needs will leave
Look at the following sentence which has been written incorrectly:
Its the two girls copy of the poem An Ode thats in the womens room with Carlos's, claimed Stu.

Which of the following words does NOT need an apostrophe?
1. Its
2. girls
3. thats
4. womens
5. All of these words need apostrophes.
Look at the following sentence:
Its the two girls copy of the poem An Ode thats in the womens room with Carlos's, claimed Stu.

Which word requires an apostrophe after the “s”?
1. Its
2. girls
Look at the following sentence:
"Its the two girls copy of the poem An Ode thats in the womens room with Carlos's," claimed Stu.

What is the correct way to write the name of the poem in this sentence?
1. ‘An Ode’
2. An Ode
(RL2) Two things that Lady Macbeth thinks are most important are __________________.
1. being strong and getting power
2. being feminine and being polite
(RL4) Which is the most accurate interpretation of the line, “Make thick my blood,” as Lady Macbeth says it here?
1. Make me unafraid of doing bad things.
2. Make me stop being bad.
(RL1) How long does King Duncan plan to spend at the Macbeth’s castle?
1. He plans to stay for a few weeks.
2. He plans to spend a night and leave the next day.
(RL4) What is Lady Macbeth saying in line 65? ("put/This night's great business into my dispatch" means "give this job to me")
1. She wants to be in charge of tonight’s plan.
2. She wants her guests to feel comfortable.
(RL1) What does Malcolm’s first question reveal about Malcolm’s concern?
1. He wants to know who killed his father.
2. He wants to know how his father was killed.
(RL1) Why do Malcolm and Donalbain decide to flee (leave) the country?
1. for safety
2. for more information
(RL4) Which is the best interpretation of Donalbain’s line, “The near in blood, the nearer bloody”?
1. The guiltiest people have someone’s blood on their hands and must be punished.
2. The closest relatives to a murdered person may also be murdered.
(RL1) Which conclusion can be made from the stage directions (the words in red letters? The word aside means away from others.)
1. It took several people to carry Lady Macbeth from the room.
2. Malcolm and Donalbain are speaking quietly to each other only.
(RL2) Which of the following sentences about Macduff is most accurate? ("Quickly let me have it" means "Tell me the news.")
1. Macduff cares much more about his family than he cares about Scotland.
2. Macduff would choose to hear bad news and respond instead of choosing to not listen to the news.
(RL3) Why does Macduff ask a series of questions in lines 212-222?
1. He is surprised and sad.
2. He is happy.
(RL4) Ross says ‘savagely slaughtered’ in line 206. Which words could he have said to make the tone less tragic and sad? ("Savagely slaughtered" means "killed like animals for food.")
1. sent to heaven or sent to God
2. violently killed or murdered
(RL1) How many children does Macduff seem to have fathered?
1. one
2. more than one
(RL3) What does Malcolm say about Lady Macbeth?
1. She committed suicide. (She killed herself.)
2. She did not know his father.
3. She was a friend of the witches.